Sara Wickham reviews a new book in which women share their stories of giving birth in midwife-led areas in Wales.
Your birth: stories from midwifery-led areas
Tag: women’s experiences
Induction of labour: the gap between theory and reality
Sara Wickham looks at research showing the gap between gap between what women need and want and the reality of what they experience when undergoing induction of labour.
Is it any wonder?
Is it any wonder that many women don’t know how to trust their bodies or have a sense that decisions about their body are theirs and theirs alone to make?
Number Crunching
When I first wrote the article that this blog post is based upon, I had just finished reading a superb book, The Tyranny of Numbers by economist David Boyle (2001). In it, he critiqued our society’s reliance on and obsession…
More evidence for rebozos…
I’ve been really amazed by the number of people who have been in touch to thank me for the two-part article that I have shared over the past few weeks about the evidence for rebozo use. (You can read part…
Women’s experience of vaginal birth after caesarean
Australian researchers have published a review and meta-synthesis of twenty research papers exploring women’s experience of vaginal birth after caesarean in a variety of birth locations. This is an important and valuable piece of work because, although we know that…
Five studies from my reading pile (Autumn 2016)
My recent travels have led to another build-up of my reading pile and, as I do a few times each year, I am sharing a few articles in one post so that I can clear the backlog and keep you…
Delivery method and women’s experiences
A study looking at women’s experiences of different types of birth has again reinforced the idea that we should be doing all we can to promote physiological birth and reduce interventions. (Yes, we also definitely need to work on making…
Another way that induction might be increasing the caesarean section rate?
A few weeks ago, a woman said to a midwife friend of mine, “I really don’t want to have induction if I go overdue. Everyone I know who has one has a horrible lonely experience in the hospital for days…
“You are your own treat…”
“A dancing girl is a revolutionary act – even more so if she is dancing alone, at night, in her bedroom, with her headphones on. A girl who knows how to give herself pleasure is a revolutionary girl. A girl…